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Easygoing Arkansas good ol' boy Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) is serving his second federal prison sentence for running moonshine when he learns his straight-arrow college graduate brother and his girlfriend have been murdered. Eager to take down corrupt county sheriff J.C. Connors (Ned Beatty), whom he suspects is behind his brother's death, Gator agrees to a federal attorney's deal that releases him from prison to infiltrate Connors' underground booze-running business.

Thriller · 1973 · 1 hr 41 min
Director Joseph Sargent

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Easygoing Arkansas good ol' boy Gator McKlusky (Burt Reynolds) is serving his second federal prison sentence for running moonshine when he learns his straight-arrow college graduate brother and his girlfriend have been murdered. Eager to take down corrupt county sheriff J.C. Connors (Ned Beatty), whom he suspects is behind his brother's death, Gator agrees to a federal attorney's deal that releases him from prison to infiltrate Connors' underground booze-running business.

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Average 6
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Fresh 6
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Studio
MGM
Released
1973
Run Time
1 hr 41 min
Rated
6+
Region of Origin
United States
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Original Audio
English
Audio
English (United States) (AAC), Russian (AAC)
Subtitles
English (CC), English (United States) , and 10 more...

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Closed captions refer to subtitles in available languages with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.